licencier

French

Etymology

From Middle French licencier, licensier, licentier, borrowed from Medieval Latin licentiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.sɑ̃.sje/

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: licenciai, licencié, licenciée, licenciées, licenciés, licenciez

Verb

licencier

1. to fire, to sack (to terminate the employment of)
2. to license

Conjugation

Conjugation of licencier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	licencier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	licenciant /li.sɑ̃.sjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		licencié /li.sɑ̃.sje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	licencie /li.sɑ̃.si/	licencies /li.sɑ̃.si/	licencie /li.sɑ̃.si/	licencions /li.sɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	licenciez /li.sɑ̃.sje/	licencient /li.sɑ̃.si/
	imperfect	licenciais /li.sɑ̃.sjɛ/	licenciais /li.sɑ̃.sjɛ/	licenciait /li.sɑ̃.sjɛ/	licenciions /li.sɑ̃.si.jɔ̃/	licenciiez /li.sɑ̃.si.je/	licenciaient /li.sɑ̃.sjɛ/
	past historic2	licenciai /li.sɑ̃.sje/	licencias /li.sɑ̃.sja/	licencia /li.sɑ̃.sja/	licenciâmes /li.sɑ̃.sjam/	licenciâtes /li.sɑ̃.sjat/	licencièrent /li.sɑ̃.sjɛʁ/
	future	licencierai /li.sɑ̃.si.ʁe/	licencieras /li.sɑ̃.si.ʁa/	licenciera /li.sɑ̃.si.ʁa/	licencierons /li.sɑ̃.si.ʁɔ̃/	licencierez /li.sɑ̃.si.ʁe/	licencieront /li.sɑ̃.si.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	licencierais /li.sɑ̃.si.ʁɛ/	licencierais /li.sɑ̃.si.ʁɛ/	licencierait /li.sɑ̃.si.ʁɛ/	licencierions /li.sɑ̃.si.ʁjɔ̃/	licencieriez /li.sɑ̃.si.ʁje/	licencieraient /li.sɑ̃.si.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	licencie /li.sɑ̃.si/	licencies /li.sɑ̃.si/	licencie /li.sɑ̃.si/	licenciions /li.sɑ̃.si.jɔ̃/	licenciiez /li.sɑ̃.si.je/	licencient /li.sɑ̃.si/
	imperfect2	licenciasse /li.sɑ̃.sjas/	licenciasses /li.sɑ̃.sjas/	licenciât /li.sɑ̃.sja/	licenciassions /li.sɑ̃.sja.sjɔ̃/	licenciassiez /li.sɑ̃.sja.sje/	licenciassent /li.sɑ̃.sjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	licencie /li.sɑ̃.si/	—	licencions /li.sɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	licenciez /li.sɑ̃.sje/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• licence
• licenciement

Further reading

• “licencier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.